Krepinevich Called for Cuts_Updated

Andrew Krepinevich, author of a recent Pentagon report saying our military is in "catastrophic decline" once advocated cuts in troops. In a 2001 report entitled "A Strategy for a Long Peace", he wrote:

...the Army reforms around an eight-division active force. The National Guard is reduced by four divisions, but retains its entire force of Enhanced Separate Brigades (ESBs). The Navy and Marine Corps go from twelve carriers and Amphibious Ready Groups (ARGs), respectively, to ten, while the Corps also is reduced by one Marine Expeditionary Brigade (MEB). The Air Force sacrifices some force structure as well, moving from twenty tactical fighter wing equivalents to seventeen, within its new Aerospace Expeditionary Force (AEF) structure.

Some will argue that a smaller force structure means taking on some near-term risk, and they are right. But pursuing the strategy outlined above would incur only a slight increase in this risk.

Sounds to me like he's a Rumsfeld clone!!

Update: This isn't the first time Krepinevich spoke of a broken Army. As Frederick Kagan writes on 12-19-05:

Perhaps the most serious argument made by those who advocate reductions in the American presence in Iraq is that the U.S. Army is in danger of breaking. General Barry McCaffrey recently warned that the "wheels are coming off" the Army. Andrew Krepinevich accepted this assumption as one of the key bases for his argument that the United States should simultaneously reduce its forces in Iraq and adopt an "oil-spot" strategy of focusing on the security of a small number of key locations and spreading that control gradually over the country.